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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by johnnixon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what's this or that sticker. I'm impressed when they can pick one out on their own.

FOSS source is here.

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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

I don't get how you "self-host" some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?

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[-] dan@upvote.au 94 points 4 days ago

It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.

[-] gergolippai@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago

Also Steam... i mean it's a LOT of games!

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[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Since I see both on here,

Trilium > Obsidian

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I've used both but really like jotty...

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Here's the list of logos row by row so you don't have to awkwardly ask what they are

Steam (not FOSS)*
"LL" (likely OP's own design, not a FOSS project)*
Zigbee
Obsidian (not FOSS)*
Brave
Protonpass

Tailscale*
Home Assistant
Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
Android (not really FOSS)*
Signal

DigitalOcean (service)*
Ubuntu
Linux
Claude (not FOSS)*
Proxmox
Nextcloud
Jellyfin (rotated)

Trilium
Nginx
Tabby
Bash
Debian (rotated)
Docker

NodeJS
Python
HomeBox
XPipe
PiHole
Prometheus
Grafana

* not in gallery of printable sticker images

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

FOSS source is here.

The second "S" in "FOSS" is "software". You did not publish software, just its output: bitmap assets needed to print the stickers. Thanks for CC-licensing your creative work but source would mean showing what's under the hood. We don't know how you sourced the images used in each triangular tile: generated to best correspond with AI? Matching pieces from Wikimedia Commons photos?

Edit: Look closely at Arch for example. It's clearly just the logo placed in a hexagon, approximated by a mosaic of 24 triangles with AI images of differing quality. Is that snow or whipped cream? How can PCB traces be as blurry as watercolor and go nowhere? At least they're topical: for Arch the prompt was probably "mountain OR architecture OR arch OR technology".

Presumably, the process for each tile is this:

  1. you make some direct artistic choices to create the base image (place the logo in a hexagon, choose a background color, add a border)
  2. you make some indirect artistic choices: pick keywords/themes for the AI to use
  3. you use a script to divide the hexagon into 24 triangles (presumably with "overscan")
  4. you use generative AI to stylize the triangles' bitmaps according to thw keywords, perhaps regenerating bad output
  5. you use a script to reassemble the image

To consider this open source, I'd expect you to at least post the scripts you used in steps 3 and 5. To consider this good open source, it should contain a guide detailing this process, best with examples. I'd expect the AI part will be "bring your own model" but you could tell which one you used and its settings.

The idea is creative and "human" enough for me not to condemn it. "FOSS" or not though, you should disclose use of AI, especially since you're selling the printed stickers.

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm fascinated by the process you've described and it's not far off. I knew that once I put these online, especially here with you people, someone would piece the steps together in no time. I've been doing pixel art for decades which has always been a mix of algorithms and manual labor. This mosaic process has been a few years coming between scripts, models, scales, pre/post processing, and output medium. The FOSS part was that I was including the print files for any FOSS project but not proprietary stuff. I'm still looking for a way to monetize the image process so I can spend more time making things I think are beautiful and less time grinding for the boss. One can dream.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

What is the "LL" monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Something entirely not tech related but I love the investigative spirit

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Do your and your partner's names both start with L?

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It isn't but that's a great idea. Mosaic of photos of us to make our initials. You're a genius.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Not a genius. This thing is called a monogram, the most basic logo design. Used mostly by couples, law firms and couples' law firms.

[-] mholiv@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Edit: yup, it's made of AI images


This is not an AI-generated pic, it's a photo taken with a real camera. The logos, however, are hexagons divided into 24 triangles each, and these triangles contain often thematically related (e. g. lions for Brave) photos or photorealistic AI images (the info I found online does not state either way) cropped to best correspond to what the triangle would contain if it just had the original logo. Basically, that corner of the whale surrounded by white was taken from a face photo (or AI pic).

[-] mholiv@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Looking closely at Perl, it seems there are photorealistic (hard to tell if AI) photos toned blue, abstract shapes that might be edited/vectorized photos, and in the bottom right there's a bead necklace that's so unshapely it's an AI giveaway. Well spotted, it was indeed made using AI-generated images!

[-] mholiv@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Did you look closely at Jellyfin? The things in the dark are OK, they add flavor, which was an artistic choice − the problem is unrealistic silhouettes of people & animals in one mosaic piece. Also, it's rotated on the laptop, and so is Debian.

The hand and face (bottom right) on Gimp is way more awful.

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago
[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

In that way, yes, but the logos that feature small text (Groovy, Lua) didn't turn out well at all.

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Groovy straight up looks like shit. I thought Lua looked okay if you stood 10 feet from the screen and squinted. Even the moon, in recognition of its Brazilian Portuguese roots was included. Understand the intended use is a 2 inch tall sticker so fine details should be lost. It's the forest, not the trees.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

You're right, at that size the AI is not very concerning either.

[-] bonn2@lemmy.zip 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Out of interest by "selfhosting" steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I'm missing lol

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few "normie" stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don't self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that's not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.

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[-] zeezee@slrpnk.net 23 points 4 days ago

you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks, those give me ideas for making more operator logos like these (No AI but mostly CC0 (public domain) because my creative input is questionable, some are just tracing of scaled-down images with a few touch-ups; I'm not too concerned about sharing non-FOSS trademarks under a permissive licence at such low res)

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago

Hehe, why do you have a butthole next to Tux?

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[-] u_tamtam@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

I see Trilium!

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago

These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They're still a little wobbly but they're good enough.

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

I got them from Etsy

Ugh.. just say you made them if is your shop.. this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice..

[-] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ya, mods! This is clearly thinly veiled self-promotion. Can we atleast remove the store links? I bet they posted them using a dummy account too

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[-] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

edit: FYI, this shop is OP's shop

Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn't name (or knew I'd got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn't Commodore 64).

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.

This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who's just learning to walk.

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 3 days ago

No, hardest part was obsidian livesync

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